There's been a lot of work on contrib syntax highlighting plugins. One should be
picked and added to ikiwiki core.
-Ideally, it should support both converting whole source files into wiki
+We want to support both converting whole source files into wiki
pages, as well as doing syntax highlighting as a preprocessor directive
-(which is either passed the text, or reads it from a file).
+(which is either passed the text, or reads it from a file). But,
+the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive makes this easy enough to
+do if the plugin only supports whole source files. So, syntax plugins
+do no really need their own preprocessor directive, unless it makes
+things easier for the user.
## The big list of possibilities
* [[users/jasonblevins]]'s code plugin uses src-highlight, and supports both
while file and directive use.
-* [hlsimple](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikiplugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/hlsimple.pm;hb=795f888a2c1b17f6d90a8f01f74b09395f0738d5) is a wrapper for the the perl module Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Simple. This is pure perl, pretty simple, uses css. It ought to be pretty fast (according to the author, and just because it is not external).
+* [hlsimple](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikiplugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/hlsimple.pm;hb=HEAD) is a wrapper for the the perl module Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Simple. This is pure perl, pretty simple, uses css. It ought to be pretty fast (according to the author, and just because it is not external).
On the other hand, there are not many predefined languages yet. Defining language syntaxes is about as much
work as source-highlight, but in perl. I plan to package the base module for debian. Perhaps after the author
releases the 5 or 6 language definitions he has running on his web site, it might be suitable for inclusion in ikiwiki. [[DavidBremner]]
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-## format directive
+## format directive and comments
-Rather than making syntax highlight plugins have to provide a preprocessor
-directive as well as handling whole source files, perhaps a generic format
-directive could be used:
-
- \[[!format pl """..."""]]
-
-That would run the text through the pl htmlizer, from the syntax hightligh
-plugin. OTOH, if "rst" were given, it would run the text through the rst
-htmlizer. So, more generic, allows mixing different types of markup on one
-page, as well as syntax highlighting. Does require specifying the type of
-format, instead of allowing it to be guessed (which some syntax highlighters
-can do). (This directive is now implemented..)
-
-Hmm, this would also allow comments inside source files to have mdwn
-embedded in them, without making the use of mdwn a special case, or needing
-to postprocess the syntax highlighter output to find comments.
+Hmm, the [[ikiwiki/directive/format]] directive would also allow comments
+inside source files to have mdwn embedded in them, without making the use
+of mdwn a special case, or needing to postprocess the syntax highlighter
+output to find comments.
/* \[[!format mdwn """
"""]] */
-Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files.
+Note that this assumes that directives are expanded in source files,
+which has its own set of problems.